Ivan Burazin discusses his journey from CodeAnywhere to Daytona, a platform providing composable sandboxes for AI agents. He explains the pivot from human developer environments to agent infrastructure, highlighting the explosive growth (74% month-over-month) and unique technical advantages like bare-metal execution for sub-100ms spin-up times.
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Daytona pivoted in January 2024 from human dev environments to agent sandboxes after seeing agents needing isolated, fast compute, leading to 74% monthly growth.
The platform runs on bare metal with a custom scheduler, achieving 60ms spin-up for single sandboxes and 75 seconds for 50,000 concurrent, outperforming VM-based competitors.
Agent workloads are spiky and unpredictable, with Daytona's utilization averaging 15% but peaking at 90%, a challenge shared by other AI infrastructure providers.
Windows sandboxes for computer use are a major focus, targeting legacy enterprise apps that require GUI interaction, with spin-up times of 5 minutes vs. 60ms for Linux.
Daytona is open-source under AGPL 3, which helps with enterprise trust and onboarding despite being primarily a cloud product.
"We basically have right now no limit to how much we can add because we basically own our own metal."
"I've never experienced this, that people literally call you if you do not give them access. Like they want access right now."
"Everything has to hurt. Going to the gym hurts, losing weight hurts... But you actually have to enjoy the pain."